The Washington Semantic Web Meetup

Meet local people interested in the Semantic Web, an initiative by the W3C [http://www.w3c.org] to make the web "one giant database": The Data Web. We address technologies such as RDF, RDFS, OWL and applications that help to develop or that use ontologies, controlled vocabularies and rules systems in the enterprise and on the World Wide Web.

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Past events

  • Learning SPARQL - Book Release Event with Bob DuCharme

    15-16 Sep 2011 in Washington, United States

    The W3C standard query language SPARQL is letting people access a growing collection of public and private data. Whether this data is part of a semantic web project or a combination of data from two relational databases on different platforms, SPARQL is making it easier to access this data using both open source and commercial software.

  • Stardog

    17-18 Mar 2011 in Washington, United States

    Clark & Parsia is a leading supplier of innovative semantic technologies, with a focus on OWL automated reasoning. C&P's OWL reasoning system, Pellet, provides a solution for expressive reasoning and modeling with semantic data. Kendall Clark will present Stardog, the forthcoming commercial RDF database from C&P, featuring full OWL2 reasoning capabilities and fast query performance in a lightweight, pure Java implementation.

  • "Triple" Anniversary Celebration

    Tue, 1 Mar 2011, 00:00 - 02:00 in Fairfax, United States

    The first Washington Semantic Web Meetup was held on February 29, 2008, at Brion's Grill in Fairfax. Now we have almost 600 members! Join us in celebrating "triple" years of Semweb community spirit, at the watering hole where it all started. Since we don't have a Feb 29 this year, the event will be held on the closest possible February date.This will be an informal networking event, and there will not be a prepared presentation.

  • Kirrily Robert of Freebase

    Fri, 25 Feb 2011, 00:00 - 02:00 in Washington, United States

    Kirrily Robert of Google will be talking about how to use Freebase and Refine. Freebase is an open, Creative Commons licensed repository of structured data of almost 20 million entities. Each entity is available in a variety of formats including RDF, and is linked to from Linked Data sources like dbpedia and the New York Times. Refine is an opensource desktop application for massaging data and reconciling it with entities in Freebase.

  • Federated Information Management with OWL/RDF/SPARQL

    10-11 Feb 2011 in Washington, United States

    Spry Inc., a small woman-owned information management consulting firm will discuss and demonstrate their use of semantic technologies (OWL/RDF/SPARQL) to develop agile analytic capabilities and enterprise federated information management solutions.  Spry's presentation will include their agile development methodology, semantic project management approach, and their use of operational governance to facilitate and manage the development of an Enterprise Information Web.

  • Tutorial: Combining Google News, Entity Extraction, and Linked Data

    17-18 Jun 2010 in Washington, United States

    Our June event will explore how to extract data entities from the latest breaking news, and use linked data to connect with related information. This event will feature Jans Aasman, the CEO of Franz, Inc, maker of the AllegroGraph triple store.Entity Extraction is a technology to extract entities such as names, locations, dates, and industry specific terminology from text. We apply a professional entity extractor (Cogito from Expert System S.p.A.) to a scrape of Google News.

  • Semantic Social Networks

    27-28 May 2010 in Washington, United States

    an event to discuss the Semantic Social Networks agenda for 2010. In this session we will define a new product category and explore it's ingredients. Most notably the mix of Semantic Web technologies, online social media and network metrics in collaborative online communities. Online Social Networks exist explicitly in the context of products or services and implicitly across social media installments as augmented identity.

  • Nepomuk and the Semantic Desktop

    29-30 Apr 2010 in Washington, United States

    NEPOMUK (Networked Environment for Personalized, Ontology-based Management of Unified Knowledge) is an open-source software specification that is concerned with the development of a Social Semantic Desktop that enriches and interconnects data from different desktop applications using semantic metadata stored as RDF. Initially, it was developed in the NEPOMUK project and cost 17 million euros, of which 11.5 million was funded by the European Union. [wikipedia

  • Combining Public and Proprietary Data with Semantic Technology

    26-27 Mar 2010 in Alexandria, United States

    Join us at TopQuadrant for a meetup session on combining public and proprietary data using semantic technologies. Bob Ducharme will be the speaker for this event.If you are able to come early, TopQuadrant will be having an open house before the event, from 1-5 PM.(See TopQuadrant open house for more information).Some semantic web applications convert all data to RDF triples, store them in a triplestore database, and then build applications around that stored data.

  • History and Genealogy Semantics

    18-19 Mar 2010 in Washington, United States

    In this Meetup, we will discuss the use of semantic technologies in history and genealogy research. Brian Eubanks will demonstrate features of some existing web resources (footnote.com and ancestry.com), and explore how the Semantic Web would improve them. We will look at ontologies and data sets that can be applied now, and explore what is still missing. Brian will also discuss his ongoing work on the History and Genealogy Semantics Working Group.

  • RDF 2.0 Brainstorming Session

    Wed, 17 Feb 2010, 00:00 - 02:00 in Washington, United States

    It's now more than 10 years since we have seen the first proposal for the Resource Description Framework (RDF). Though RDF has served us well in many ways it's also time to look at some of its shortcomings and introduce some new features.We would like to solicit the community for ideas and ask you to share your experience with us to make a strong case for a new or updated RDF recommendation. Such a discussion is typically held in public and implemented in a working group at the W3C.

  • "Ad" Some "Life" to Your Semantic Relationships

    Fri, 29 Jan 2010, 00:00 - 02:00 in Washington, United States

    In this month's meetup, we will take a look at semantics in the health/life sciences domain, and concept map development based on semantic relationships. Our speaker will be Ravi Kalaputapu, CTO of Knewco, a company involved in a very unique combination of advertising, computational linguistics, and life-sciences.Ravi is a technology visionary, strategist with expertise in execution of innovative solutions to challenging business needs.

  • Partly Cloudy With a Chance of Semantics

    Wed, 16 Dec 2009, 00:00 - 02:00 in Washington, United States

    Brand Niemann will present at our December meeting, with some timely news on the intersection of cloud computing and the semantic web. * A Semantic Cloud Computing Desktop / Mobile Apps with Linked Open Data that consists of the following: * A database of "things" referenced by URL's (e.g. my Twitter) (see Designing URI Sets for the UK Public Sector: A report from the Public Sector Information Domain of the CTO Council's cross-Government Enterprise Architecture, Interim paper, Version 1.

  • Enterprise Applications and Architectures

    Fri, 13 Nov 2009, 00:00 - 02:00 in Washington, United States

    This meetup will showcase two exciting applications of semantic enterprise technologies. First, Cory Casanave of Model Driven Solutions will demonstrate publishing models and architectures as linked open data (LOD). This will be followed with a case study and demo by Greg Bardwell of Innovative Query, on Semantic Technology and Enterprise Applications.

  • VoCampDC - Day 2

    Sat, 31 Oct 2009, 13:00 - 15:00 in Washington, United States

    9 - 5 VoCamp DC There is a fee of $10 per VoCamp day for pizza and refreshments, collected upon arrival.

  • VoCampDC - Day 1

    Fri, 30 Oct 2009, 13:00 - 15:00 in Fairfax, United States

    9 - 5 VoCamp DC There is a fee of $10 per VoCamp day for pizza and refreshments, collected upon arrival.

  • Meetup with Sir Tim Berners-Lee

    27-28 Oct 2009 in Chantilly, United States

    Our Global Semantic Web Meetup will be sponsored by the International Semantic Web Conference 2009 and will have a special guest and keynote speaker: Sir Tim Berners-Lee will address the meetup community! I am looking forward to seeing as many as possible meetup group members at this event.

  • Building Dynamic Business Applications with the TopBraid Suite

    17-18 Sep 2009 in Fairfax, United States

    Today's businesses are under ever-increasing pressure to deliver more value for less effort. The speed of adaptation of business applications to changing needs has become a bottleneck for successful business growth in a number of sectors. CEO's are finding that they can develop a new product line faster than their DBAs can develop a new application to manage it. This has created a need for Dynamic Business Applications - applications that can adapt quickly to new business situations.

  • Semantic Wiki

    25-26 Aug 2009 in Washington, United States

    Join us as we learn about Semantic Mediawiki, and setup our own instance. We'll then collaboratively add contentto our domain wswm.org.We end the evening with a discussion on reusing ourdata and mashups with other data sources.

  • Semantic Web Programming

    20-21 Aug 2009 in Washington, United States

    Applications bring the Semantic Web alive - revealing its value. Using open source tools and useful examples, we demonstrate practical methods to exercise the Semantic Web based upon on our Wiley book, "Semantic Web Programming". We open with a "Hello Semantic Web World" application that outlines the key components to a Semantic Web application, quickly moving on to our "FriendTacker" Semantic Web application that demonstrates integration through the semantic unification of Jabber Instant Messag

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